Vocab
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is Archaeology?
The primary motive to simply learn or satisfy curiosity.
What is pure science?
Hieroglyphics is ancient Egyptian writing that used symbols and pictures.
What is True?
Some of what we know about Egypt comes from translating hieroglyphics.
The number of tree rings determine this.
What is the age of the tree?
The layers of soil and rock are called this.
What is strata?
Objects made by people, such as tools, weapons, containers, etc.
What are artifacts?
Primary Motive to make something better or useful.
What is applied science?
An bibliographic test looks at the amount of time between the copy and an original.
What is true?
Thick tree rings indicate this.
What is rapid growth/good conditions?
What is principle of superposition?
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms.
What is life science?
Some applied sciences professionals may use updated __________________, implement innovative scientific procedures or discover life-saving medications.
What is technology?
An artifact with a printed date is determined to have an assigned age.
What is false?
It is a known date if the date is printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a work of history
One complete tree ring (one light band plus one dark band) usually represents this in the life of a tree.
What is 1 year?
This can be found from almost every known civilization, and we can learn a lot about ancient people as long as we are careful to understand that they don't give us a complete picture.
What are artifacts?
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is Archaeology?
Pure science has a goal of pure _____________.
What is knowledge?
Dendrochronology determines assigned dates based on the number of tree rings a sample has.
What is true?
These are dates that are not known.
Dendrochronologists can tell by this if a surface forest fire swept through an area hundreds of years ago by looking at tree rings.
What is a scar or divot?
What is technology?
The study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up Earth.
What is Geology?
Classify this scenario: An experiment to determine the level of air pollution in a city. Is it science or applied science?
What is pure science?
Technology is always the direct result of applied science.
What is False?
(it can also result from pure science or an accident)
Besides figuring out the exact age of a piece of wood, this amazing historical secret scientists can unlock by studying tree ring widths on a large scale.
What are past climate conditions?
Such as drought and rainfall
True or False: The principle of superposition a definite fact. Why or why not?
What is False?
Because sometimes layers of rock and soil are not laid down one by one over time. Sometimes they form as a result of certain catastrophes, creating several layers at the same point in history.